Rohingya men hand-assist a motorized drill digging a deep well to access clean groundwater for a tiny handful of the 3/4 of a million refugees sheltering nearby.The vast majority of the work constructing the camps near the Bangladesh-Myanmar border has been carried out by the Rohingya people themselves. Relief agencies provide materials and the refugees spring to action, building shelters, wells, bridges and other infrastructure - sometimes overnight..The last time I saw this degree of self-sufficiency was in Nepal following the 2015 earthquake. Most of the Nepalis affected by the disaster were hill tribes or ethnic groups considered to be low in the caste hierarchy. As such, they were used receiving little to no support from the central government and quickly took the lead in reconstructing their shattered villages. The stateless Rohingya, however, have not only been ignored - but systematically disempowered, persecuted and terrorized by the successive military and "democratic" regimes of Myanmar. They're well used to providing for and helping themselves, as their needs have long been neglected by the Myanmarese government and international community..#RohingyaReflections...#Refugees#Bangladesh#Resilience#Rohingya@panospictures#PeopleNotNumbers#UNHCR#OnAssignment for @refugees

The footprint left by a barefoot Rohingya child is superimposed on the silhouette of a refugee man trying to catch a cell signal in this #doubleexposure..Many of the Rohingya people I've met here in Bangladesh fled with nothing other than the clothes on their backs - not even sandals. I've been documenting refugee crises around the world for quite a few years now, and have never met so many people who fled their homes with absolutely nothing. This speaks to the suddenness and intensity of violence that forced them out..#RohingyaReflections.#OnAssignment for @refugees...

Rohingya children climb on a giant bamboo tower in Kutupalong refugee camp, Bangladesh, on December 11th, 2017.

I'm here #onassignment for @refugees, struggling to get my head around the scale of this crisis. Three quarters of a million people - more than 175,000 Rohingya families - have been forced to flee their homes. Many of them are traumatized by their experiences. Beatings, rape, dismemberment and arson are just a few of the tactics that have been used to drive this agrarian Muslim ethnic group across international boundaries, searching for safety. Amid this environment of chaos and loss, it's beyond reassuring to see kids acting like kids - proof that life goes on.

Fifteen-year-old Sita Rai smiles while taking a break at the BTM brick factory in Nepal, where she's been working for several years. She and her two best friends, Gita and Rita, share a small shelter for the six or seven months they labor here annually. In the coming weeks they-and thousands of other migrant workers-will return to their home villages for the monsoon season.#DoubleExposure#InCamera#Nepal#Migration